Colorado Deer Population and Management News Archive
Annual Deer Hunt 2006: 44,800 2007: 45,000 2008: 35,500 2009: 33,922 2010: 34,768 2011: 33,217 2012: 33,486 Hunting estimates are based on surveys of hunters, not reported kills as used by some states. Poor survival for mule deer fawns. Results of the deer hunt are based on surveys of deer hunters. Whitetails increasing west of I-25. Post hunt deer population of about 420,000. One half to one third of the herd size in the 1940s and far below the pre-settlement numbers. | More Deer Management and Population News by State |